Alan Rickman

The Freedom Theatre, a community-based theater and cultural center in Jenin Refugee Camp, in occupied Palestine on the West Bank, will present Athol Fugard’s “The Island” at the Nafe Katter Theatre, 820 Bolton Road on the UConn campus in Storrs this weekend.

The drama, starring Faisal Abu Alhayjaa and Ahmed Alrakh of the Freedom Theatre, will play Friday, Sept. 6 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 7 at 2 and 7 p.m. The matinee will be followed by a question and answer session. The play is staged by Gary English, professor of drama at UConn and who last year served as The...

Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts, indie film fave Parker Posey, Johanna Day (Edward Albee's "Peter and Jerry") and Glenn Fitzgerald (off-Broadway's "This") make up the cast for the world premiere of Will Eno's "The Realistic...

There is a striking similarity in the reflections -- a resonant echo recounted time and again with such specificity that it registers as far more than the automatic prattle of any half-hearted grief.
We have lost two stellar artists this week in David...

Culturally this has been an awful week of loss for Britain, and for a world connected by our love of entertainers who — if the gods smile — become indelible popular artists.
First David Bowie, dead at 69. Now comes news of the great actor Alan Rickman,...

Sufferin’ succotash!
They paid off. All the anecdotes of artistic suffering, frigid temperatures and Leonardo DiCaprio eating raw bison liver on camera paid off for the early 19th century frontier saga “The Revenant.” The movie topped this morning’s...

By Grabthar's hammer, Amazon Studios has signed on to develop a TV series based on "Galaxy Quest." The 1999 sci-fi movie starred Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman as actors who once appeared on a "Star Trek"-like TV series -- so convincingly,...

"A Little Chaos" is all too tidy as it imposes a predictable, pat modern sensibility on a most unconvincing depiction of late 17th-century French aristocratic life, with Kate Winslet starring as a green-thumbed widow hired to design part of the gardens at...

British actor Alan Rickman best known for his role in the "Harry Potter" films has died after a battle with cancer. He was 69. Susan King talked to him last year about his wide-ranging career on stage and in film.
Nearly 20 years ago, British actor...

Helen Mirren is once again playing her signature role of Queen Elizabeth II, this time in the Broadway transfer of Peter Morgan's "The Audience," which was first seen in London in 2013. The play, which imagines the British monarch's ritual meetings with...

FOLKESTONE, England — The war that was supposed to end all wars didn't. But who knew it would still be causing skirmishes nearly a century later?
As Europe prepares to mark the 100th anniversary next year of the outbreak of World War I, clashes have...

Helena Bonham Carter's affair with Kenneth Branagh was apparently the source of his split with actress Emma Thompson, but Thompson now says she's forgiven her former rival.
The 54-year-old British actress spoke about the affair for the first time --...

Helena Bonham Carter's affair with Kenneth Branagh was apparently the source of his split with actress Emma Thompson, but Thompson now says she's forgiven her former rival.
The 54-year-old British actress spoke about the affair for the first time --...

In the 1970s, New York's legendary CBGB club was a crowded petri dish for the rock contagion labeled punk. But Randall Miller's movie glorifying this musical movement and the shaggy gatekeeper behind it — unfazed club owner Hilly Kristal (Alan Rickman)...

The 2013 Fall Movie Preview is a broad snapshot of films opening through Nov. 1. Release dates and other details, as compiled by Oliver Gettell, are subject to change.
SEPT. 6
36 Saints
Two New York City detectives hunt for a serial killer targeting 36...

The 2013 Fall Movie Preview is a broad snapshot of films opening through Nov. 1. Release dates and other details, as compiled by Oliver Gettell, are subject to change.
SEPT. 6
36 Saints
Two New York City detectives hunt for a serial killer targeting 36...

The year's first serving of Oscar bait has arrived on a silver platter in the form of "Lee Daniels' The Butler," a star-studded historical drama starring Forest Whitaker as an African American butler working at the White House through multiple...

"Lee Daniels' The Butler" is neither as good as it might have been nor as bad as survivors of "The Paperboy" may have feared. An ambitious and overdue attempt to create a Hollywood-style epic around the experience of black Americans in general and the...

"Lee Daniels' The Butler" is neither as good as it might have been nor as bad as survivors of "The Paperboy" may have feared. An ambitious and overdue attempt to create a Hollywood-style epic around the experience of black Americans in general and the...

After seven previous films over a 10-year span, $2 billion in domestic box office and still more treasure overseas, Warner Bros. has unwrapped the Harry Potter advertising line it hoped it would never have to use: "It all ends."
In a classic storybook...